Beverly Guy-Sheftall is Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies and Founding Director of the Women's Research and Resource Center at Spelman College. Johnnetta Betsch Cole is President Emerita of Spelman College and Bennett College for Women. The authors of several books, together they have written Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women's Equality in African American Communities and coedited (with Rudolph P. Byrd) I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Johnnetta Betsch ColeI. Editorials, Opinions, and Petitions 1. Feminists for Peace and Barack ObamaFrances Anderson, Carolyn Eisenberg, Marlene Fried, Linda Gordon, Judith LeBlanc, Nancy Kricorian, and Eliza Migdal2. Feminists for Clinton Christine Stansell3. Stop the False Race–Gender Divide Ann Russo and Melissa Spatz4. Morning in America: A Letter from Feminists on the Election Patricia J. Williams5. Duel of Historical Guilts Maureen Dowd6. It’s Not as Simple as White Trumping Black or ManTrumping Woman Patricia J. Williams7. Sex Versus Race, Again Tracy A. Thomas8. Obama and the SistersMelissa Harris-LacewellII. Personal Reflections: Having Our Say9. Lest We Forget: An Open Letter to My Sisters Who Are Brave Alice Walker10. Culture Trumps Politics and Gender Trumps Race 53Carol Moseley Braun11. What Would Shirley Chisholm Say? Mark Anthony Neal12. Voting for the Girl: Some Thoughts on Sisterhood and Citizenship Pearl Cleage13. The Sisterhood Split Jessica Valenti14. Hillary Versus the Patriarchy Erica Jong15. Hillary Is White Zillah Eisenstein16. Your Whiteness Is Showing 85Tim Wise17. Black and for Hillary Tara Roberts18. Why I Support Obama Andrea Guerrero19. Daughters of the South, Rise Up: On Generation, Gender, and Race in the 2008 Democratic Election Cassie Premo Steele20. Generation Y Refuses Race-Gender Dichotomy Courtney E. Martin21. Why I’m Supporting Barack Obama Katha Pollitt22. The Obama Feminists: Why Young Women Are SupportingObama Ariel Garfinkel23. Yo Mamma Linda Hirshman24. Feminists Must Heal the Wounds of Racism Aishah Shahidah Simmons III. Essays: Making Our Case 11925. Crises of Representation: Hate Messages in Campaign 2008 Commercial Paraphernalia Jane Caputi26. Goodbye to All That #2 Robin Morgan27. Race to the Bottom Betsy Reed28. Intersectionality: Race and Gender in the 2008 PresidentialNomination CampaignDianne M. Pinderhughes29. Does Race Trump Gender?: Black Women Negotiating their Spaces of Intersection in the 2008 Presidential CampaignCynthia Neal Spence30. The Generation Gap: Graduate Students and Democratic Primaries Spring 2008A. Lynn Bolles31. Michelle Obama On My Mind Arica L. ColemanIV. Post-Election: What We Learned 32. Why We Need to Stop Obsessing Over Obama Andrea Smith33. Learning from a Year of Hope and Hard Choices Gloria Steinem34. Reading Obama: Collective Responsibilities and the Politics of Tears M. Jacqui Alexander, Gail Lewis, and Gloria WekkerAppendix List of Contributors Index

Beverly Guy-Sheftall is Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies and Founding Director of the Women's Research and Resource Center at Spelman College. Johnnetta Betsch Cole is President Emerita of Spelman College and Bennett College for Women. The authors of several books, together they have written Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women's Equality in African American Communities and coedited (with Rudolph P. Byrd) I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Johnnetta Betsch ColeI. Editorials, Opinions, and Petitions 1. Feminists for Peace and Barack ObamaFrances Anderson, Carolyn Eisenberg, Marlene Fried, Linda Gordon, Judith LeBlanc, Nancy Kricorian, and Eliza Migdal2. Feminists for Clinton Christine Stansell3. Stop the False Race–Gender Divide Ann Russo and Melissa Spatz4. Morning in America: A Letter from Feminists on the Election Patricia J. Williams5. Duel of Historical Guilts Maureen Dowd6. It’s Not as Simple as White Trumping Black or ManTrumping Woman Patricia J. Williams7. Sex Versus Race, Again Tracy A. Thomas8. Obama and the SistersMelissa Harris-LacewellII. Personal Reflections: Having Our Say9. Lest We Forget: An Open Letter to My Sisters Who Are Brave Alice Walker10. Culture Trumps Politics and Gender Trumps Race 53Carol Moseley Braun11. What Would Shirley Chisholm Say? Mark Anthony Neal12. Voting for the Girl: Some Thoughts on Sisterhood and Citizenship Pearl Cleage13. The Sisterhood Split Jessica Valenti14. Hillary Versus the Patriarchy Erica Jong15. Hillary Is White Zillah Eisenstein16. Your Whiteness Is Showing 85Tim Wise17. Black and for Hillary Tara Roberts18. Why I Support Obama Andrea Guerrero19. Daughters of the South, Rise Up: On Generation, Gender, and Race in the 2008 Democratic Election Cassie Premo Steele20. Generation Y Refuses Race-Gender Dichotomy Courtney E. Martin21. Why I’m Supporting Barack Obama Katha Pollitt22. The Obama Feminists: Why Young Women Are SupportingObama Ariel Garfinkel23. Yo Mamma Linda Hirshman24. Feminists Must Heal the Wounds of Racism Aishah Shahidah Simmons III. Essays: Making Our Case 11925. Crises of Representation: Hate Messages in Campaign 2008 Commercial Paraphernalia Jane Caputi26. Goodbye to All That #2 Robin Morgan27. Race to the Bottom Betsy Reed28. Intersectionality: Race and Gender in the 2008 PresidentialNomination CampaignDianne M. Pinderhughes29. Does Race Trump Gender?: Black Women Negotiating their Spaces of Intersection in the 2008 Presidential CampaignCynthia Neal Spence30. The Generation Gap: Graduate Students and Democratic Primaries Spring 2008A. Lynn Bolles31. Michelle Obama On My Mind Arica L. ColemanIV. Post-Election: What We Learned 32. Why We Need to Stop Obsessing Over Obama Andrea Smith33. Learning from a Year of Hope and Hard Choices Gloria Steinem34. Reading Obama: Collective Responsibilities and the Politics of Tears M. Jacqui Alexander, Gail Lewis, and Gloria WekkerAppendix List of Contributors Index

Beverly Guy-Sheftall is Anna Julia Cooper Professor of Women's Studies and Founding Director of the Women's Research and Resource Center at Spelman College. Johnnetta Betsch Cole is President Emerita of Spelman College and Bennett College for Women. The authors of several books, together they have written Gender Talk: The Struggle for Women's Equality in African American Communities and coedited (with Rudolph P. Byrd) I Am Your Sister: Collected and Unpublished Writings of Audre Lorde.

• Acknowledgments Introduction Beverly Guy-Sheftall and Johnnetta Betsch ColeI. Editorials, Opinions, and Petitions 1. Feminists for Peace and Barack ObamaFrances Anderson, Carolyn Eisenberg, Marlene Fried, Linda Gordon, Judith LeBlanc, Nancy Kricorian, and Eliza Migdal2. Feminists for Clinton Christine Stansell3. Stop the False Race–Gender Divide Ann Russo and Melissa Spatz4. Morning in America: A Letter from Feminists on the Election Patricia J. Williams5. Duel of Historical Guilts Maureen Dowd6. It’s Not as Simple as White Trumping Black or ManTrumping Woman Patricia J. Williams7. Sex Versus Race, Again Tracy A. Thomas8. Obama and the SistersMelissa Harris-LacewellII. Personal Reflections: Having Our Say9. Lest We Forget: An Open Letter to My Sisters Who Are Brave Alice Walker10. Culture Trumps Politics and Gender Trumps Race 53Carol Moseley Braun11. What Would Shirley Chisholm Say? Mark Anthony Neal12. Voting for the Girl: Some Thoughts on Sisterhood and Citizenship Pearl Cleage13. The Sisterhood Split Jessica Valenti14. Hillary Versus the Patriarchy Erica Jong15. Hillary Is White Zillah Eisenstein16. Your Whiteness Is Showing 85Tim Wise17. Black and for Hillary Tara Roberts18. Why I Support Obama Andrea Guerrero19. Daughters of the South, Rise Up: On Generation, Gender, and Race in the 2008 Democratic Election Cassie Premo Steele20. Generation Y Refuses Race-Gender Dichotomy Courtney E. Martin21. Why I’m Supporting Barack Obama Katha Pollitt22. The Obama Feminists: Why Young Women Are SupportingObama Ariel Garfinkel23. Yo Mamma Linda Hirshman24. Feminists Must Heal the Wounds of Racism Aishah Shahidah Simmons III. Essays: Making Our Case 11925. Crises of Representation: Hate Messages in Campaign 2008 Commercial Paraphernalia Jane Caputi26. Goodbye to All That #2 Robin Morgan27. Race to the Bottom Betsy Reed28. Intersectionality: Race and Gender in the 2008 PresidentialNomination CampaignDianne M. Pinderhughes29. Does Race Trump Gender?: Black Women Negotiating their Spaces of Intersection in the 2008 Presidential CampaignCynthia Neal Spence30. The Generation Gap: Graduate Students and Democratic Primaries Spring 2008A. Lynn Bolles31. Michelle Obama On My Mind Arica L. ColemanIV. Post-Election: What We Learned 32. Why We Need to Stop Obsessing Over Obama Andrea Smith33. Learning from a Year of Hope and Hard Choices Gloria Steinem34. Reading Obama: Collective Responsibilities and the Politics of Tears M. Jacqui Alexander, Gail Lewis, and Gloria WekkerAppendix List of Contributors Index